The financial impacts of the government shutdown are set to escalate this week, even as Senate Republicans and Democrats show no signs of breaking the stalemate over health care policies at the heart of the fight.
Without a deal, military troops are set on Wednesday to miss their first paychecks since the shutdown started. Meanwhile, Americans who use Obamacare are starting to feel the consequences of expiring subsidies at the center of Democrats’ demands, as insurance companies begin to send notices of rising premiums.
The Trump administration said the government would pay the military this week using tariff and tax revenues. But without action by Congress, it’s unclear how the administration can do so.
Representative Jim Himes, a Democrat from Connecticut, on CBS’s Face the Nation Sun